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  • How we capture research data for agile analysis

    Don’t underestimate the value of good notes User researchers are a bit like wedding photographers. We have to capture what’s happening, what the participant does and what they say, but this is a small part of a researcher’s work. The real value actually comes from the analysis we do afterwards. Much like a photographer spends…

  • GovSite – an update

    Whilst looking over dxw’s blog posts recently, I realised it has been some time since we’ve given an update on GovSite. When dxw last wrote about Govsite we described it as a flexible theme we had developed and made available for anyone to use. GovSite has since come a long way and is now available…

  • Why we’re moving to a four-day week for client work

    From the new year, dxw will be working on client projects from Monday-Thursday each week and using Friday for company-focussed work. We’ll start the first sprint of the new year on January 4th, so our first company Friday will be the 6th. We’ve been thinking about this change for a long time, and we think…

  • Improving the GOV.UK blogging platform

    Three years ago dxw built a blogging platform for government, blog.gov.uk, to move departmental blogs on to GOV.UK and help civil servants blog as easily as possible. We’ve been hosting and developing the site since it launched, and this year GDS renewed their contract with us for a further two years. It’s been a while…

  • Mince Pies at the ready!

    At dxw, we take our Christmas party preparations quite seriously! The wine has been ordered and will be mulled for 4 hours on the day by our resident hot wine expert, Leanne. We choose some fine cheese and biscuits and are even stretching to a bit of hot food this year. Nothing, however, is as…

  • IPv6 on .gov.uk, 1 year on

    Last year we had a little look at IPv6 on .gov.uk domains. IP (Internet Protocol) is one of the core protocols of the internet. It’s used for giving addresses to devices on a network and for delivering the right data to the right device. There’s a transition going on right now from IPv4 to IPv6.…